Announcing Tasks in Teams, a coherent task management experience in Teams.

Hi Joanna and Team

MS Teams users deserve a little more honesty and transparency re functionality and delivery dates when statements like this are made.

‘Future endpoints include:

• Word, Excel, and PowerPoint: starting January, you can add a task using @mentions in Word. The same functionality will be available in Excel and PowerPoint later in 2020.’. 

I’m waiting for a better native approach to in-app tasking that atlassian confluence offers.  I’m really not sure it will come from Microsoft - we have been waiting a very long time now.  

Recent updates to tasks in teams has been has been bitter disappointing and like many productivity tools, too focused on disrupting users workflow to open a task or jobs pane.  Users want any list to be managed anywhere (within word, excel, PowerPoint etc) 

Lack of integration with core Microsoft products including MS Project is leading users to look elsewhere for enterprise solutions.  [at]mentions has simply been mentioned too many times.

Joanna, is it actually coming, if so when and, will I be able to maintain the list from within the Microsoft app where the action was initiated - ie. like the todo function in confluence.

Always happy to help define user need - 101 productivity rule is don’t disrupt user workflow - users will open task/job panes when they need them / if they are noting action items in a word or ppt doc then let them do it there - see atlassian confluence ‘to do list’ for a guide,  they have nailed it.

with thanks

Peter